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Tomatoland: Barry Estabrook Describes Why Florida Sucks at Agriculture

Apparently, when it comes to agriculture and civil rights, Florida just can't do anything right. In the new book, Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit, journalist Barry Estabrook traces the history of the tomato and discusses the ecological and human co ... More >>

The International Watermelon Conference is Not Seedy

Creative Commons: North Carolina State University​This weekend, the Second Annual International Watermelon Conference rolls into town at The Eden Roc Resort & Spa, and the roster reads like one big juicy party! While it's billed as a summit focusing on "the challenges and opportunities f ... More >>

Spilling the Beans

Creative Commons: North Carolina State University​This weekend, the Second Annual International Watermelon Conference rolls into town at The Eden Roc Resort & Spa, and the roster reads like one big juicy party! While it's billed as a summit focusing on "the challenges and opportunities f ... More >>

Irate Radio

Creative Commons: North Carolina State University​This weekend, the Second Annual International Watermelon Conference rolls into town at The Eden Roc Resort & Spa, and the roster reads like one big juicy party! While it's billed as a summit focusing on "the challenges and opportunities f ... More >>

November is Sticky Peanut Butter Month

​November is national peanut butter lover's month. Even with peanut allergies on the rise, peanut butter is found in about 75 percent of all American homes.This American pantry staple dates back to the Incas who created a paste-like substance from peanuts. The first American commercial peanut crop ... More >>

Immokalee Workers Win $$ for Farm Laborers

​The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Pacific Tomato Growers, one of the biggest U.S. tomato firms, has agreed to pass on a penny per pound surcharge to workers.McDonald's and others had offered to pay the charge after federal authorities compared the lot of Central American workers in tomato ... More >>

Marijuana by the numbers

To hell with Harper's. New Times gets you high.

Florida Tomatoes Declared "Tastiest In Years" -- By The Florida Tomato Marketers

Lee KleinPhoto of last year's presumably inferior crop​The Florida Tomato Committee is touting the upcoming crop as "the best tasting in years". The marketing organization for tomato growers estimates that 80 percent of the winter crop was wiped out this past year. To date this season, Florida tom ... More >>

Getting Back at the Orange Bitch

Lee KleinPhoto of last year's presumably inferior crop​The Florida Tomato Committee is touting the upcoming crop as "the best tasting in years". The marketing organization for tomato growers estimates that 80 percent of the winter crop was wiped out this past year. To date this season, Florida tom ... More >>

"Turkey Murder" - The Thanksgiving Song

Here is the video for a song called Turkey Murder (The Thanksgiving Song), it's no Adam Sandler Thanksgiving Song, but that song is played out anyways. What with all this internet and all these cameras, and all these softwares you'd figure somebody would have come up with a new classic by now, bu ... More >>

Coalition Of Immokalee Workers Declare Tomato Pickers Victory in Florida

image via ciw-online.org The Coalition Of Immokalee Workers, a Florida farmworkers union known for taking on the "big 4" fast food giants, winning, and garnering higher wages because of it, has just marked another milestone. Two Florida farms that specialize in growing and selling or ... More >>

Orange Crush

A Chinese pathogen has the citrus industry talking apocalypse.

Florida Citrus Growers Switch to Organic

A Chinese pathogen has the citrus industry talking apocalypse.

Just Hoof It

Or oink, neigh, or cluck it for a good cause

Stop Bustin’ Our Hemp

Or oink, neigh, or cluck it for a good cause

The Junina Festival

Or oink, neigh, or cluck it for a good cause

A Home for a Gnome

Or oink, neigh, or cluck it for a good cause

Historian, Test Thyself

Or oink, neigh, or cluck it for a good cause

Radio Free Haiti

Jonathan Demme's documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen

Glam-Dunk

Hip-hop hoops it up

Baby Me Tree

Hey you tree huggers, stop squeezing and actually raise one!

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Anatomy of a Quarantine

State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

Letters

State officials are spending millions of your tax dollars to stop citrus canker. And they're making a mess of it.

The Great Largo Gumbo Limbo Imbroglio

When 350 trees fall in a protected North Key forest, they make a very loud noise